TABLE 1.
Patient Characteristics
| GV, n = 72 |
No GV, n = 30 |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Mean (range) or n (%) |
Mean (range) or n (%) |
p (α = 0.05) | |
| Age | 60.2 (21–96) | 58.2 (22–91) | 0.62 |
| Male | 28 (38.9) | 11 (36.7) | 0.53 |
| History of ventral hernia | 15 (20.8) | 3 (10.0) | 0.15 |
| History of small bowel obstruction |
26 (36.1) | 13 (43.3) | 0.54 |
| Body mass index, kg/m2 | 28.4 (12.5–53.2) | 28.9 (16.3–68.0) | 0.88 |
| Heart rate | 89 (52–142) | 88 (57–140) | 0.80 |
| Systolic blood pressure | 133 (89–178) | 134 (90–193) | 0.86 |
| White blood cell count | 10.3 (0.8–27.0) | 10.3 (3.9–24.3) | |
| Serum creatinine | 1.3 (0.1–12.9) | 1.5 (0.5–11.5) | 0.69 |
| Lactic acid | 1.5 (0.4–5.5) | 1.4 (0.7–3.0) | 0.61 |
| Base deficit | 3.7 (−9–18) | 1.6 (−6–9) | 0.19 |
| Serum bicarbonate | 24.7 (12.1–38.3) | 24.6 (18.9–31.0) | 0.84 |
| CT, fecalization of small bowel |
10 (13.9) | 6 (20.0) | 0.40 |
| CT, free abdominal fluid | 9 (12.5) | 7 (23.3) | 0.18 |
| CT, bowel wall thickening | 4 (5.6) | 6 (20.0) | <0.03 |
| CT, closed-loop obstruction |
6 (8.3) | 5 (16.7) | 0.51 |
| CT, mesenteric swirl | 0 (0.0) | 1 (3.3) | 0.33 |